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Advice from new graduates to new students: Here’s what you should explore at Bates

June 13, 2025

We asked 14 Bates seniors, in their waning hours as resident experts on all things Bates, to tell us what the Class of 2029 should explore when they get to campus.

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June 27, 2025

Harward Center wraps up 2024–25 year with grants, awards honoring community engagement

June 26, 2025

Outside-the-box Batesies: Meet five DIY students who created their own majors

For four weeks during this year’s Short Term, 31 Bates students — biology, economics, and philosophy majors alike — caught a glimpse of careers in business while taking the Tuck Business Essentials course, offered for the first time this year in collaboration with Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Whatever their prior knowledge of business, the students showed up with critical thinking skills and eagerness to learn in-hand — hallmarks of a Bates education — says Peter Friedman ’92, who earned an MBA from Tuck in 2003 and served as practitioner-in-residence for Tuck Business Essentials. “Students were very engaged and interested in the topic, which was great,” Friedman says. “They were strong and very capable.” In these photographs, students in the Tuck Short Term prepare for and make their final course presentations, first getting ready in the Purposeful Work area of Chase Hall, and then on a Zoom call in Chase Hall Lounge.

June 26, 2025

Short Term’s crash course in business yielded big profits for Bates students

June 26, 2025

Bates College Board of Trustees elects four new members effective July 1, 2025

June 25, 2025

At Bates, a ginkgo seedling carries survival from 1945 Hiroshima to today

June 18, 2025

2025 Green Innovation Grants support sustainability projects for theater, the Bates garden, and more

June 17, 2025

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

June 13, 2025

Bates announces inaugural Athletics Hall of Fame class

June 13, 2025

Picture Story: You can’t rain on this Alumni Parade

June 12, 2025

Six alumni honored at Reunion for contributions to Bates and the world

June 9, 2025

Bates College announces senior leadership transitions

Sadie Williams, Ralph Steadman’s daughter and the managing director of the Ralph Steadman Art Collection, circulates on in the main gallery where an exhibition of her father’s work, “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” opens tomorrow, June 6, 2025, and runs through Oct. 11, 2025, in the Bates Museum of Art. This extensive traveling exhibition spans over 60 years of Ralph Steadman’s influential and lauded career, and features more than 140 original artworks and ephemera, including sketchbooks, handwritten notes, and personal photographs. Visitors to the exhibition will encounter familiar favorites, like the artist’s illustrations for literary classics such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, as well as works for activist causes, branding iconography, and even a life-sized bronze sculpture.

June 6, 2025

‘Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing’ showcases 60 years of the artist’s uncanny, unique perspective

May 30, 2025

12 tips to shape your surroundings, and your life, from Bates Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth

May 30, 2025

Picture Story: At Commencement 2025, as Ben Mays said, chilly weather but warm hearts

May 30, 2025

Picture Story: Baccalaureate 2025, to love is to heal

May 30, 2025

Bates announces seven new Fulbright Student awards for 2025–26

May 25, 2025

You can shape your situation before it shapes you, Bates grads told at 159th Commencement

May 23, 2025

Slideshow: What these Bates seniors will miss — and what they want the Class of ’29 to hear

Draft for social media post: Social post for Carmona family/to run Thursday Art: combo of Phyllis fresh art from last Thursday and vintage (2018) images of young Jose at the Commencement of his siblings Christopher and Alanis Carmona. Most Thursdays, Jose Carmona ’25 of Chicago walks a few blocks from campus to visit Carmen Thibodeau at her home. They don’t share blood, but she’s been his Lewiston grandmother the whole time he’s been at Bates. “Some of my friends know that she’s not my actual grandma,” Carmona says, but others assume it. “They’ll be like, ‘Oh, you’re going to Granny’s house today?” Even before Jose came to Bates, Carmen Thibodeau — along with her late husband Richard, who died in 2022 — has represented family to three of his siblings before him, Christopher Carmona ’18, Alanis Carmona ’18 and Carolina Carmona ’22. This weekend Thibodeau will be in the audience when Jose walks across the stage in front of Coram Library and officially becomes a graduate of Bates, and she couldn’t be prouder. Since 2014, when Christopher and Alanis arrived on campus as first years, Thibodeau has been guiding this tight knit group of siblings through their Bates experience, serving up lemonade, snacks and good advice. She’s taken them on trips to family favorites like Mac’s Grill in Auburn and the Fryeburg Fair, and other Maine highlights and offered steady, enduring support and love. Look for our full story about how this relationship started, and why it won’t end, in Bates News on Friday.

May 23, 2025

Four Bates siblings, their ‘Lewiston grandmother,’ and one last Commencement celebration

May 22, 2025

Double gold: Two Bates STEM standouts earn prestigious Goldwater Scholarships